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Aegean Airlines together with its subsidiary Olympic Air signed contract with CrossConsense to implement the CROSSMOS^® eTLB. After the final implementation CROSSMOS^® will then be on board of about 61 aircraft operating under the flag of these two Greek airlines. By implementing CROSSMOS^® AEGEAN Group is taking an important step moving towards paperless maintenance.

Mr. Vasilios Kardasis, Technical Director at AEGEAN said: “AEGEAN’s driving and achieved target for constant growth and development over the years has been accomplished by establishing advanced systems and technologies that indicate towards that same need in the future as well. CROSSMOS implementation is a decision for reducing manual data recording, provide almost real-time aircraft status at any time and substantially simplify maintenance handling for flight crews, maintenance staff and operations control. Higher data quality that eases control and monitoring processes of all aircraft fleets will be expected by aircraft data digitization and maintenance workflows optimization in order to continuously enhance efficiency, punctuality, reliability and safety of our commercial flight operations”.

About AEGEAN: Aegean Airlines, a member of Star Alliance, is Greece’s largest airline providing ever since its inception in 1999 until today, full service, premium quality short and medium haul services.

In 2013 AEGEAN acquired Olympic Air; as a result, passengers now have increased flight frequencies and connections as well as improved accessibility to Greece’s islands, including some of the most remote ones. Total traffic of both companies reached 13.2m passengers in 2017. The company´s summer 2018 timetable includes a network of 153 destinations, in 44 countries in total. The flights are being performed with one of the youngest fleets in Europe, comprising of 61 aircraft.

In June 2018 AEGEAN signed a purchase agreement with Airbus, for the order of up to 42 new generation aircraft of the A320neo family. The investment is valued at 5 billion USD at list prices, and it is the largest private investment in Greece. The new aircraft facilitate the offer of new services to passengers, as well as increased range capabilities for expansion to new destinations and markets.

AEGEAN was awarded as the best regional airline in Europe for 2018 by Skytrax World Airline Awards, for the 8th consecutive time and 9th time over the last 10 years.

Alitalia signed contract with CrossConsense to implement the CROSSMOS^® eTLB. The decision to implement an electronic techlog is part of the process of “paperless maintenance” and the reason for Alitalia for heading towards paperless maintenance is not only saving paper, environmental resources, time and money but also to accelerate the provision and transmission of information.

Thanks to the new agreement signed with CrossConsense, Alitalia will be able to save more than 10 tons of paper every year, with a significant reduction of the effects of the environmental impact. Furthermore, the CROSSMOS eTLB solution implemented by the airline will facilitate and accelerate analysis, transmission and share of crucial information in the maintenance processes.

The reason for deciding in favour of CROSSMOS was the fully functional bi-directional interface to the maintenance backend system of the Alitalia group as well as the open and honest negotiations during the decision process.

Alitalia had a clear vision in mind when it decided to move forward with the “Paperless maintenance” process: in order to pursue efficiency and effectiveness in every single maintenance process, eTLB was a mandatory step and the best solution to implement a real “paperless maintenance”. The airline did also a hard work thinking in particular at its internal process re-engineering and, above all, at changing everyone’s mental approach in order to adapt to the new optimized business processes.